Am I automatically subscribed to new subs when they are made?
submitted 5 years ago by happysmash27 from (self.SaidIt)
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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (3 children)
I think the standard model is the best, there's a set of standard subs that new members are subscribed to and no auto subscribe. This encourage the culture of subs the admins promote through a curated "default" set.
Yeah that's not a bad idea. We originally included everything to make sure that no one missed anything, since the community was so tiny back then. However we also then later put the /home page (which is a copy of /all with just a few subs like s/ads removed) as the front page to accomplish the same thing, so on reflection I suppose it is a bit redundant. I'd be OK using the more standard model as long as /home (basically mirroring /all) is the front page still, like you said.
We might just change the policy for new users and leave existing users unaffected. I think that'd be the easiest way to make that change if we were to do so.
So we're talking about changing these two things exactly:
Have a small set of default subs that new users are subscribed to, instead of them being subscribed to all subs
Create a 'auto-subscribe to new subs' checkbox in user preferences
I think we could do that. Item 1 is easy to change, I could do it in 10 mins if I have the list of subs that should be default. We'll have to decide on that I guess. Like /s/pics and /s/technology and /s/worldpolitics and /s/worldnews and /s/news... something like that. Maybe 20-30 in total?
Item 2 will take a little work, probably going to need d3rr's help for that one
[–]OldManCorley 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (2 children)
Sounds like a good way to go about it.
I suggest including the community to allow us to share a sense of ownership of the site identity, like a post calling for suggestions, and the most upvoted suggestions not already in the admins list (and are suitable) get included in the default set?
[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (1 child)
I'm remembering now that the reason we did it was the idea that subscriptions would be opt-out, so you could just unsubscribe from the ones you don't like, rather than subscribing to the ones you do like.
I guess we could add a "subscribe to all" option in the user preferences just like there's an "unsubscribe to all" option. That way people can do an opt-out subscription method if they prefer.
I'm going to talk this over with d3rr in the coming days, then if he thinks it's a good idea then I'll make that post to the community. I've already written it :) This is the default list so far:
/s/pics
/s/maps
/s/technology
/s/worldpolitics
/s/politics
/s/worldnews
/s/news
/s/quotes
/s/collusion
/s/science
/s/privacy
/s/corruption
/s/censorship
/s/Antiwar
/s/finance
/s/business
/s/TechCompanies
/s/Saidit
[–]OldManCorley 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 5 years ago (0 children)
Which is what I did, and it worked as intended. But after manually filtering the third page it got tedious. That system is at end of life, as planned.
This is the default list so far:
/s/conspiracy 👌😑👍
use the following search parameters to narrow your results:
e.g. sub:pics site:imgur.com dog
sub:pics site:imgur.com dog
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